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Calvin Fuller • 1 card
University professors love to discuss how a writer structured a script because it feeds right into the foundation of all academia: study, breaking down, and analyzing after the fact. They love to show some classic film and point out how the screenplay was so perfectly structured there was no way it could have been anything other than the amazing
... See morePaul Guyot • Kill the Dog: The First Book on Screenwriting to Tell You the Truth
With very few exceptions, video killed the American revival house. If you want to see a Boris Karloff movie, you have to rent it and watch it on a television set. In Paris it costs as much to rent a movie as it does to go to the theater. French people enjoy going out and watching their movies on a big screen. On any given week one has at least 250
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He has always been alien to her, a man of procedures where there should be passions.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
William Bridges: The three ideas I pitched to Charlie and Annabel were shit and none of them stuck, but I think we got on enough for them to trust that my spec script wasn’t a fluke. A few days later, they sent me one of Charlie’s own ideas to flesh out: an embryonic version of Shut Up and Dance. The treatment was very different from the finished
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